Abstract:

Trade secret is one of the important intellectual property rights of enterprises The management and protection of trade secret has been paid more and more attention by enterprises. This paper adopts overall analysis and sampling analysis to study public judicial cases of the infringement of trade secrets, and analyzes trade secret cases’ overall situation including the number of cases, regional distribution, cause of action, and judgments in China from 2015 to 2021. 78 cases are sampled for detailed legal analysis, focusing on the industry distribution of trade secret disputes, issues involved, reasons for disputes, court decisions, and amounts involved. Based on judicial cases analysis, combined with enterprise research, this paper also summarizes problems existing in the process of enterprise trade secret.

Key words: trade secret, judicial cases, enterprise management.